So Hitchens is asked by a cocky member of that audience, which looks pretty conservative "if there is no God why not just stay at home & work on other things, why spend all your time speaking against etc etc"
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28944662
Its a fair question , a good question he doesn't flinch but continues in measured talk. Why does he persist in being such a gadfly & leave people alone to live out these perfectly hazey foggy mists of myths, beliefs & ideas about who's saved & who isn't at the "end of times" nonsense .....yet by the time he gets done with that talk, even these good Christians are giving him a rousing round of applause.
One doesn't forget the lessons of 9/11 or the histories of have already posted to you, you counter with Pol Pot, Hitler Mao Stalin as if its some kind of free pass for religion & indictment against godless atheists, but in truth not all athesist are Godless these days , they just have one less God than you.
If 7mil Christians can be wiped out in the Catholic Protestant wars in Europe & Germany, 11,000 villages in the Rhineland destroyed alone 500yrs ago, what makes you think Christianity didn't have its holocausts too? And where was all that divine morality then that was so non relative again? |
